Innovative Media Quotes

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I'm also launching a podcast. Because, I mean, the world desperately needs another podcast, am I right? Not to be a tease, but the format is different from anything else I've seen out there, and the subject matter is hopefully boundless, eye-opening, and a little cathartic.

The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?

I think in future people will take television in eyedrop form. All media will be in eyedrops.

Given the kind of filmmaker I am, the kind of experiences I've been trying to give audiences, I was drawn to the potential of VR before I even tried watching anything in VR.

We're living in a tremendously new landscape, and the possibility of what can be created is immense. These tools of the moving image have a relatively short history in art, and what we can do with them is still largely unknown. We are still innovating and finding ways to tell stories.

We had to get past the mechanical film age to be able to explore other things, but it will be interesting.

Games are a media that relies on technology to be innovative and forward thinking and interesting. Personally, I love being at that forefront when something new comes out.

Everyone is trying to say, 'This is Gen Y; we're not an old company. We're not doing old content.'

I have more faith in doing something creative for a cable station or something like Yahoo or Google or Amazon. What Netflix did with 'House of Cards' and David Fincher was brilliant. That is inspiring to me. I think there is more chance for creativity in animation, it just hasn't happened there yet.

Cutting edge, breakthrough, television. That's what we want to do.

I don't feel as though I've graduated from commercials or music videos. In my mind, they aren't compartmentalised.

One of the attractions for me of having 'Watchmen' made into the first Motion Comic was just that - it was breaking new ground.

I want to make movies and pieces of television and pieces of art that crack everyone's assumptions.

Why stick to just prose or just music or just newspaper or just video? Why not create new models for information that combine elements of them all?